Simone Biles has won the hearts of Americans with her routines jam-packed with difficulty, winning gold medals in the team final, all-around and vault, while earning bronze on beam despite a fall.
"You are watching this video because I have either been arrested or have been abducted." With those words, Zimbabwean pastor Evan Mawarire announced his own arrest by the government of Robert Mugabe.
At least 19 people were killed and others injured in airstrikes Tuesday on rebel-held areas of Aleppo, Syria, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory of Human Rights and civil defense volunteers known as the White Helmets.
Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo began an emergency vaccination campaign this week to curtail a yellow fever outbreak that has sickened thousands of people and killed more than 400, the World Health Organization said. The two countries, which together reported more than 6,136 suspected cases and 953 confirmed cases since the outbreak began in December, plan to vaccinate more than 14 million people in more than 8,000 locations.
At least 14 people -- including one aid worker -- were killed when an airstrike hit a hospital in northern Yemen Monday, according to the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders.
Russians warplanes have conducted missions over Syria from an airbase in Iran -- the first time a major power has done so since the Islamic Revolution there in 1979.
At the London 2012 Olympics, David Rudisha stormed to the line in the 800 meters final in just one minute 40.91 seconds, winning gold and smashing his own, still unbeaten, world record.
Editor's Note: Nai Saleh lives in government-controlled Latakia in northwest Syria. Saleh writes under a pseudonym out of concerns for her safety. Saleh is a civil engineer and a journalist who contributes to Good Morning Syria. The views expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.
Abumbi II, the 11th fon, or king, of Bafut, Cameroon, has close to 100 wives. They weren't all his to start. According to local tradition, when a fon dies, his successor inherits all his wives and then marries his own queens.
The Rio 2016 Olympics has witnessed its second wedding proposal after Chinese diver Qin Kai popped the question on the podium to silver medalist He Zi.
